Editing Athlon (section)

===Later Athlon iterations===
The second-generation Athlon, the Thunderbird, debuted in 2000. AMD released the Athlon&nbsp;XP the following year,<ref name="A"/> and the Athlon&nbsp;XP's immediate successor, the [[Athlon&nbsp;64]], was an AMD64-architecture microprocessor released in 2003.<ref name="AMD Press: 2003"/> After the 2007 launch of the [[AMD Phenom|Phenom]] processors, the Athlon name was also used for mid-range processors, positioned above brands such as [[Sempron]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071211104023/http://www.amdboard.com/amdid.html "AMD Athlon/Duron/Sempron CPU identification and OPN breakdown"], amdboard.com.</ref> The [[Athlon&nbsp;64&nbsp;X2]] was released in 2005 as the first native dual-core desktop CPU designed by AMD,<ref name="The Register for Athlon 54: 003"/> and the [[Athlon&nbsp;X2]] was a subsequent family based on the Athlon&nbsp;64&nbsp;X2.<ref name="HotHardware"/>  Introduced in 2009, [[Athlon&nbsp;II]] was a dual-core family of Athlon chips.<ref name="Regor: 2009"/>

A USD$55 low-power Athlon 200GE with a [[Radeon]] graphics processor was introduced in September 2018, sitting under the [[Ryzen&nbsp;3]] 2200G.<ref name="anandtech-20180906"/> This iteration of Athlon used AMD's Zen-based ''Raven Ridge'' core, which in turn had debuted in Ryzen with Radeon graphics processors.<ref name="Again for Anadtech: 2018">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=May 26, 2018 |title=Two New 35W Raven Ridge Parts: AMD Athlon 200GE and Athlon Pro 200GE |url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/12816/two-new-35w-raven-ridge-parts-exist-amd-athlon-200ge-and-athlon-pro-200ge |access-date=August 4, 2020 |work=Anandtech}}</ref> With the release, AMD began using the Athlon brand name to refer to "low-cost, high-volume products", in a situation similar to both Intel's [[Celeron]] and Pentium Gold.<ref name="anandtech-20180906"/> The modern Athlon 3000G was introduced in 2019 and was positioned as AMD's highest-performance entry-level processor.<ref name="F"/> AMD positions the Athlon against its rival, the [[Intel Pentium]]. While CPU processing performance is in the same ballpark,<ref name="Tom's Hardware and Carbotte: 2019"/> the Athlon 3000G uses [[Radeon RX Vega series|Radeon Vega]] graphics,<ref name="F"/> which are rated as more powerful than the Pentium's [[Intel UHD Graphics]].<ref name="Tom's Hardware and Carbotte: 2019">{{cite news |author=Kevin Carbotte |title=AMD Athlon vs Intel Pentium: Which Cheap Chips Are Best? |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-athlon-intel-pentium-showdown,38737.html |work=Tom's Hardware |date=March 4, 2019 |access-date=August 4, 2020}}</ref>